Toilet cream.



UNITED STATES.

PATENT. OFFICE.

JOHN (J. FLEMING, or SUMMIT, NEW Jurass c."

TOILET CREAM.

SPEGIFIQATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,848, dated January 7, 1902. Application filed December 13,1900. Serial No. 39 ,604. (No specimens.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN G. FLEMING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Summit, inthe county of Union and State of New Jersey, have discovered a new and useful Process of Making Toilet Cream, of which the following is a full, clear, and accurate description.

The composition of matter which I produce by the process about to be described is a toilet article intended as a substitute for soap and useful for the same purposes; but inasmuch as it is especially designed for cleansing and purifying the skin it will be understood that the materials used in its composition should be selected with special reference to their I purity and the process of manufacture carried out in suchmanner as to produce an article entirely free from all properties deleterious to the skin. ployed in my process are an oil, either vegetable or animal, potash obtained from woodashes with distilled water,whey, and asuitable perfume. I am aware that these and-kindred materials have been used before in the man ufacture of soap by'processes in which the oil has been saponified by combination with a solution of alkali and the subsequent addition of whey; but in the practice of my new process of manufacture the improvement over the old processes and the advantages which I derive from the new method lie in the manner of bringing together the materials which enter into the compositionof the soap and the su periority of the results thereof.

My process consists in dissolving an alkali with whey and then thoroughly and intimately mixing the solution thus produced with an animal or vegetable oil which has previously been somewhat heated. This dispenses with the necessity for the use of water or any other substance beyond theactual ingredients employed in the production of soap by m y process,aud in this way I produce a soap of a finer quality and better adapted for the uses for which it is designed. The oil which is to be used should be purified to free it from The materials which are em-' solid. The ordinary and Well-known processes for obtaining these ingredients maybe followed, preferably preserving the precauasteam or waterjacketed vatand brought to a temperature not materially exceeding 120 Fahrenheit and to it potash, previously dissolved in Whey, is then added and stirred in slowly. The proportion of potash isdependout upon the quantity and character of the oil, being determined experimentally or according to well-known formulae, so that when the process of saponification is complete there will remain no excess of alkali in the compound. The quantity of whey used for dissolving the potash may be greater or less, according to the desired physical consistency of the resulting product, but usually should be approximately equal to the quantity of water which would be used for the alkaline solution employed for the purpose of making the or dinary soft soap. When by stirring undera moderate heat the solution of potash and whey has been taken up by the oil, the mixture is allowed to stand in a warm place for about forty-eight hours. It is then thoroughly stirred again in order to insure the complete chemical change resulting from the action of the alkali on the oil, so that there will remain no excess of either oil or alkali. The compound is thenplaced in a jacketed kettle, a small additional amount of whey added, and the whole brought to a boilin order to eifectacomplete chemical change and mixture of the ingredients, after which it is allowed to cool off. When the material is cooled,

a perfume is incorporated therewith inthe 1. The process herein described which conlution with an animal or vegetable oil, as set sists in heating an animal or vegetable oil to forth. a temperature not materially to exceed 120 3. The herein-described process of making 15 Fahrenheit, adding thereto a solution of pota composition of matter suitable for use as a 5 ash and whey, and then, after the mixture substitute for toilet soap by intimately mixhas been allowed to stand until the process of in g an animal or vegetable oil with a solution saponification has taken place, boiling the of whey and potash obtained from Woodsame with an additional quantity of whey, as ashes, as set forth.

set forth. JOHN G. FLEMING. 1o 2. The herein-described process of making Witnesses:

toilet cream which consists in dissolving an M. LAWSON DYER,

alkali in whey and intimately mixing the so- BENJAMIN MILLER. 

